I’ve made a handful of contributions to OSM, but I’m pretty new to the more detailed and involved side of mapping. One of my main interests is hiking and charting the countless unmapped trails in the Alberta Rockies, as CanVec data is (both by common wisdom and my own experience) very lacking in both quality and completeness in this regard. Point being, the Alberta Government has a far better catalogue of trail data that may have an OSM-compatible license. I’ve checked the OSMF OGL wiki and it doesn’t look like it’s been considered yet. After reading this topic it seems that I’ll need to contact the Licensing Working Group.
I’m just wondering if there’s any established procedure or formatting for requesting review of a license that I should follow.
As mentioned, I’m very much new to serious OSM mapping and I apologise if this isn’t the right place for this question.
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Hello ClutchBuilder,
Here’s how I got the York Region Open Data License reviewed:
All I did was send an email to legal@osmfoundation.org and cc’d legal-questions@osmfoundation.org
This was the email:
Please review York Region Open Data License
The Regional Municipality of York has a wealth of open data including high-quality aerial imagery from 2022, addresses including exact house numbers and postal codes, and building footprints. But, being in Canada, data under unreviewed licenses like this cannot be used in OpenStreetMap.
York Region’s open data catalogue: York Region Open Data
York Region Open Data License (I want LWG to review this): York Region Open Data Licence
I have read the license myself and it appears to allow worldwide commercial use without attribution, so it’s probably worth LWG’s time to review it.
Sincerely,
acivilizedhuman
OSM contributor
Hope that helps!
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Thanks for the help! I’ve sent an email, and will reply here with any updates I receive.